Shakespearian Production: With Especial Reference to the TragediesThis volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality. |
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 1963 page | 13 |
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1936 | 21 |
THE SHAKESPEARIAN PLAY | 27 |
THE THEORY OF PRODUCTION | 42 |
SOME ACTUAL PRODUCTIONS | 79 |
THE IDEAL PRODUCTION | 125 |
SHAKESPEARE AND RITUAL | 148 |
1949 and 1963 | 161 |
Timon of Athens AND SHYLOCK | 172 |
TREE AND CRAIG POEL AND BARKER | 200 |
CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATIONS | 242 |
AFTERTHOUGHTS | 271 |
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